The TV host couldn’t keep the smile from her face as she announced that toddler Grace Bridges, who’s cancer battle was featured on the show earlier this year, had been given “the best news ever”.“I’m delighted to tell you that this week, her parents and Grace received the best news ever – she is cancer-free,” Bartholomew revealed.“That is after 70 doses of chemo, five surgeries – two of which were life-threatening … It’s such a beautiful story.”Grace was diagnosed with metastatic hepatoblastoma in 2019, an extremely rare form of cancer affecting one in a million children, and had spent 21 months in hospital receiving treatment.Bartholomew added that viewers would likely remember the previous segment about Grace as she had “absolutely lost it afterwards” on air.“I might do that again sometime later today,” she joked this morning.During the original segment which aired on Sunrise in June, Bartholomew couldn’t hold back the tears as she shared the heartbreaking story of Grace’s cancer journey.The presenter had met with Grace’s parents, who told her they’d been warned to prepare for the unthinkable.“We got told that if she survived 24 hours then it would be a miracle, and here we are 13 months later and she’s still going,” her father Adam told Bartholomew.“For reasons that we can’t explain and doctors have only told us what they believe is going on, Grace’s markers for her tumour have decreased on her own, so they believe because her immune system is now repairing itself.“Her body is actually beating the cancer on its own.”After the story aired, the camera cut back to a crying Bartholomew on the Sunrise desk.But following today’s happy news, it was a very different story.“It’s just such wonderful news for her whole family after that horrific ordeal,” she told her co-hosts.“They call her ‘Amazing Grace’ and I think that’s absolutely the best name for her – she’s such a cute little kid.”
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